driven

driven

Pressed along by some despotic or urgent force; hag-ridden: She works as if driven(1887+)

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data driven in Technology

A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.